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Last week, members of Fifa’s executive committee (ExCo) were interviewed by
Michael Garcia as part of his investigation into the awarding of the 2018
and 2022 World Cups. Garcia is a former United States Attorney, specialising
in corporate corruption and insider trading. He is the lead investigator for
Fifa’s Ethics Committee.

At about the same time, it wasrevealed that Jack Warner, who sat on the ExCo
for three decades, was being investigated by the FBI for receiving monies
from Qatari officials, via a New York bank.

This isn’t really news so much as confirmation of news. Part of Garcia’s job